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Fix Ethernet driver problems in virtualized Windows 7

One advantage that Macs have is that you can legally run every operating system you want on them. I'm excited to have OS X, Ubuntu, Windows XP, and Windows 7 all on one machine. But after adding Windows 7 to VMware recently, I ran into a problem. It said that my Ethernet driver was no good and I couldn't get the Internet to work.

I tried reinstalling VMware Tools, but nothing worked. Nothing, that is, until I tried this handy tip I found on Dave Taylor's Web site. The problem is in a VMware configuration file. Let … Read more

VMware Fusion 3.0 with 64-bit support announced; VirtualBox Updated

Since the release of Snow Leopard, many people who use virtualization solutions have been frustrated by the lack of 64-bit support for their virtual machines. The three popular programs Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, and Sun VirtualBox have so far been 32-bit only and while Parallels Desktop will run on the 64-bit Snow Leopard kernel and Virtualbox technically should as well, Fusion is still only a 32-bit application. VMware has a press release on their website that announces the release and availability of version 3.0 of Fusion, which brings 64-bit support along with other enhancements to the software.… Read more

Five takeaways from VMworld

VMworld, which took place last week in San Francisco, was hopping.

In fact, the number of attendees appeared to overwhelm many of the conference's educational labs in the early going. And the many vendors I spoke with at the event were happy about their booth traffic and the show in general. Now that I've had a bit of time to digest and distill three days of whirlwind activity, five points stick with me:

1. We're seeing virtualization--as technology, products, and solution sets--start to mature in many respects. Or at least the current phase of it. Fellow analyst … Read more

Survey: VMware, Red Hat to claim more IT dollars

IT spending may be tight, but chief information officers plan to increase their budget allocation to a select group of virtualization vendors, including VMware, Citrix, and Red Hat, according to a Goldman Sachs CIO survey released Monday.

It's not surprising that virtualization is top of mind and wallet for CIOs, but things look particularly rosy for Red Hat, given its position as the market leader in open source and a strong challenger in virtualization.

While the percentage of CIOs expecting to increase IT spending has grown since Goldman Sachs' last survey in June 2009, a full 69 percent expect … Read more

VMworld 2009: Great for storage vendors

For a storage guy, last week's VMworld 2009 in San Francisco was a great show. All the familiar storage vendors were there and then some. Walking the show floor, I found them to be uniformly positive about traffic and the response they were getting from attendees.

Digging a bit deeper I found that storage vendors were getting attention from a broad range of IT specialists including server, network, architecture, and of course, storage administrators.

Wait a minute. VMworld isn't supposed to be a storage show. And yet storage vendors were, in general, more positively impressed with VMworld 2009 … Read more

CNET News Daily Podcast: Virtualization may be moving mainstream

If you're not affiliated with corporate data centers, you probably haven't given much thought to the term virtualization. But the era in which virtualization directly affects us regular folk may be on its way. CNET News reporter Stephen Shankland, who attended VMWare's VMworld conference in San Francisco this week, explains.

That and other headlines of the day on Friday's CNET News Daily Podcast.

Today's stories:

Microsoft reports attacks using IIS vulnerability

Kai-Fu Lee leaving Google

Google tweaking Android Market

Amazon apologizes for deleting Kindle e-books

IBM plunges into the 'smart grid for water'

Photos: Mars orbiter's abstract impressions… Read more

Get ready for virtualization to affect you, too

SAN FRANCISCO--If the average person has heard of virtualization at all, the idea probably left little impression beyond something to do with running corporate data centers packed with computing hardware.

But the era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.

The company in the forefront of the technology, an EMC subsidiary called VMware, drew 12,488 people to its VMworld conference here this week, and one theme of the show was the growing push to move the technology beyond the server realm. Initially that means PCs, but the company demonstrated its technology on mobile phones, … Read more

VMware service links public and private clouds

VMware has introduced a service for developers that want to test out building cloud-based applications that will work with virtualized environments based on its products.

The infrastructure service, vCloud Express, will be offered via a number of cloud service providers that have signed up as partners, the company said in its announcement at the VMworld conference on Tuesday.

vCloud Express is based on the company's vSphere virtualization platform. As with other recently launched services, such as the Xen Cloud Platform, it aims to allow a business' internal cloud to work with an external cloud. It offers developers a way … Read more

VMware steps up data center automation game

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines.

VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements.

The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week.

VMware's vCenter products are designed to ride shotgun with the company's vSphere cloud computing operating system.

In a nutshell, vCenter is designed to automate tasks such as data center provisioning, monitoring, change and performance management. VMware added that vCenter is also designed to manage toward policies and service level agreements. Each virtual server that … Read more